Florida Senate - 2025                        COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
       Bill No. CS for CS for SB 1702
       
       
       
       
       
       
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                  04/16/2025           .                                
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       The Committee on Rules (Burgess) recommended the following:
       
    1         Senate Amendment (with directory and title amendments)
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    3         Delete lines 219 - 234
    4  and insert:
    5         (17) FUNDING.—Students enrolled in a charter school,
    6  regardless of the sponsorship, shall be funded based upon the
    7  applicable program pursuant to s. 1011.62(1)(c), the same as
    8  students enrolled in other public schools in a school district.
    9  Funding for a charter lab school shall be as provided in s.
   10  1002.32.
   11         (i) By July 1 of each year, school districts shall provide
   12  public charter schools the following information pertaining to
   13  shared revenues generated by a discretionary half-cent sales
   14  surtax, voted district school operating millage, and non-voted
   15  district school capital improvement millage:
   16         1. The estimated total revenue to be received from each
   17  tax.
   18         2. The estimated per-student allocation to public charter
   19  schools for each tax and the methodology used to determine the
   20  estimate.
   21         3. The estimated timeframe within which the public charter
   22  school will receive funds from each tax.
   23         4. A detailed explanation for each revenue transmission at
   24  the time funds are transferred.
   25         5. By March 31 of each year, the total revenues distributed
   26  for each revenue source. Each school district shall provide a
   27  report detailing distributed revenues to the department and
   28  publish the report on the school district website.
   29         Section 5. Subsection (17) of section 1002.84, Florida
   30  Statutes, is amended to read:
   31         1002.84 Early learning coalitions; school readiness powers
   32  and duties.—Each early learning coalition shall:
   33         (17)(a) Distribute the school readiness program funds as
   34  allocated in the General Appropriations Act to each eligible
   35  provider based upon the reimbursement rate by county, by
   36  provider type, and by care level. All instructions to early
   37  learning coalitions for distributing the school readiness
   38  program funds to eligible providers shall emanate from the
   39  department in accordance with the policies of the Legislature.
   40         (b) All provider reimbursement rates shall be charged as
   41  direct services pursuant to s. 1002.89.
   42  
   43  Each early learning coalition and the Redlands Christian Migrant
   44  Association with approved 2023-2024 prior year provider
   45  reimbursement
   46  
   47  ====== D I R E C T O R Y  C L A U S E  A M E N D M E N T ======
   48  And the directory clause is amended as follows:
   49         Delete line 99
   50  and insert:
   51  1002.33, Florida Statutes, is amended, and paragraph (i) is
   52  added to subsection (17) of that section, to read:
   53  
   54  ================= T I T L E  A M E N D M E N T ================
   55  And the title is amended as follows:
   56         Delete line 21
   57  and insert:
   58         reimbursement rates; requiring school districts to
   59         provide public charter schools with specified
   60         information relating to public school funding by
   61         specified dates; requiring school districts to provide
   62         a report of shared revenues to the Department of
   63         Education; requiring that such report be published on
   64         a school district’s website; amending s. 1003.4282,
   65         F.S.;